Learning by building

Our workshops offer a calm way of holding a group without raising your voice. The result advances under their hands and shows at once: nothing to wait for, nothing to get right first time, and a mistake is corrected by taking two pieces apart. Children go back to it of their own accord, and attention holds without having to be called for. The format works as well with a restless group as with a studious class.

Our facilitators adjust the difficulty during the session according to the group in front of them. A five-year-old and a secondary pupil each find something to do from the same stock, without either feeling out of their depth. No prerequisites, no compulsory reading, no selection by level: that is the condition for the whole group to take part. Those who usually hold back are often the first to get involved.

An after-school slot of an hour and a half, a whole Wednesday, a series spread across the year: each setting has its own constraints of time, headcount and budget. We know them well, and it is the format that bends to them. You provide a room and tables, we bring the rest, protective covers included. Your own staff stay present as the rules require, without having to run anything.